Shin Satellite Taps Tandberg Television for Video Distribution Upgrade and DTH Network

Hong Kong, Sept. 3/Satnews Daily/ — Thailand's Shin Satellite has selected Tandberg Television to provide its 5000 compression system in carrying Shin Satellite’s video distribution across the Asia Pacific region.

Tandberg said it won the contract because of its ability to deliver the industry’s highest performance compression solutions, supported with a long history of pioneering development in the satellite broadcasting market.

Shin Satellite was a very early adopter of MPEG digital technology, pioneering Digital DTH using the Ku-band frequency in 1993 and was the world's first full scale user to adopt the MPEG-2/DVB standard in May 1995. This early system included some of the first Tandberg Television MPEG-2 products to ship anywhere in the world.

Teerayuth Boonchote, vice president of Operations of Shin Satellite said Tandberg Television was instrumental in the launch of Shin Satellite’s DTH and satellite distribution network. “Today, the company continues to support us in the migration to the latest generation of equipment that enables us to roll-out more cost-effective and operationally efficient systems,” he said.

The new system will be used for both the Direct-to-Home (DTH) and Global Digital TV distribution activities of Shinsat. The DTH Ku-band service allows Thailand's major pay television operator, The United Broadcasting Corporation Group (UBC), to provide up to 50 digital channels to its customers. Using Shinsat’s Thaicom 3 Global Beam for Global Digital TV distribution, broadcasters and channel owners need only uplink once to ensure that over three billion people on four continents can potentially view their channel.

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